Normalized difference vegetation index for the Mongón study area.

NDVI raster geotiff (EPSG:32717) computed from a Landsat scene (path 9, row 67, acquisition date: 09/22/2000; USGS 2013) with 117 rows and 117 columns:

ndvi

Normalized difference vegetation index.

. For more details, please refer to Muenchow et al. (2013).

. The data is used in the "Ecology" chapter in Geocomputation with R. See https://geocompr.robinlovelace.net/eco.html for details.

Format

A geotiff file

References

Muenchow, J., Bräuning, A., Rodríguez, E.F. & von Wehrden, H. (2013): Predictive mapping of species richness and plant species' distributions of a Peruvian fog oasis along an altitudinal gradient. Biotropica 45, 5, 557-566, doi: 10.1111/btp.12049.

USGS (2013): U.S. Geological Survey. Earth Explorer. Available at: http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (last accessed 1 March 2013).

Examples

system.file("raster/ndvi.tif", package = "spDataLarge")
#> [1] "/home/runner/work/_temp/Library/spDataLarge/raster/ndvi.tif"